KozzyCan

100% the way we move the ball doesn't help the forwardline at all but the amount of times I see our forwards either standing completely still and waiting for the ball to land on their head OR all running back into the goal square rather than spreading and creating options does my head in.

Even if we got Burgess back I don't think we'll ever have the kind of luck we had injury wise in 2021. Everything went right for us that year.

Where did you hear this? This seems like a bit of an overstep for the fitness guy.

Didn't Peter Jackson want Josh Mahoney to replace him but got vetoed by the AFL who installed Pert?

I don't see a difference. Both are examples of a journalist reporting the player in question is frustrated/disgruntled. Neither went on the record and said their piece publicly.

Unsupported comments that I gleaned from reporting. Hardly unsupported then? Why would I believe posters on this site over actual journalists whose jobs it is to find this stuff out? Peter Ryan is a very good journalist and I would put a lot of stock into his article from today. Do you deny that the club has stagnated this year? Do you deny that there has been infighting? Do you deny that the club hasn't had to put out constant spotfires? I'm not going to stick my head in the sand and pretend everything is sunshine and roses. Pert and Goodwin told us they were going to fix our issues last off-season. They told us to judge the club on what they do. Well it's been nearly 12 months and our best player is disgruntled and want's out. Oliver has struggled since he hurt his hand and has been forced to play through injury and poor fitness all season. We are losing games by the biggest margins in five years. Why should I believe they can get it done this time around?

Dogs wouldn't do that trade. I think some are being a bit harsh on Trac and soft on the club. Some saying Trac shouldn't let his frustrations get into the media but the footy world is a bubble and people talk. Hell, the club was happy to openly air their dirty laundry to try and send Oliver a message over the off-season. The Peter Ryan article suggests that he made his issues known to the club before his injury. Since then it seems those issues have either been ignored or left unresolved to the point where he apparently would seek a trade if he could. That is a massive indictment on the football department.

Feels like a reset would do the club a world of good. Too much stagnation, too much in-fighting, too many spotfires to continue putting out. Too much laid on the shoulders of Gawn and Viney when Goodwin and Richo should be getting this stuff under control. The rot has been festering for the better part of two years now. Club should be doing an external review. An internal review run by the people who allowed this situation to manifest seems like an utterly pointless exercise, Pert is the king of spin and Roffey seems woefully out of her depth.

Bont's frustrations with the dogs were well documented over the off-season: https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/thats-trouble-dogs-elpehant-in-room-as-frustrated-superstars-future-in-doubt/news-story/569789df5489e6dd3e3fc34027507161